The film will recount Barker’s years as a journalist in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She covered the volatile region while a reporter at ProPublica and as the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009.

Fey, Lorne Michaels and Ian Bryce are producing. Shooting began in New Mexico in February.

The movie will open against Gramercy’s “London Has Fallen” and Disney’s “Zootopia.”